Whitby, Yorkshire.— Early in the morning of the 2nd January, 1939, anumber of fishing boats went to sea.

At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea became rough, broken and dangerous between the pier ends and the Rock Buoy. At 9.30 A.M. the motor life-boat Mary Ann Hepworih was launched, manned by a scratch crew, with the second coxswain of the No.

2 pulling life-boat in charge. The regular members of the crew were at sea in the fishing boats. Some of the boats had a bad time, but by 2 P.M.

all the boats, fourteen in number, had reached safety escorted by the life-boat.—Rewards, £7 6s. 6d..